The search for Bigfoot has gone viral–online. Not since the Georgian Bigfoot hoax of 2008 has “bigfoot” been such a hot search term. You can see the graph below where “bigfoot” peaks in August of 2008.

You can see the keyword “bigfoot” peaking yesterday at 9:00am PST in the screen shot below.

What is causing the stir? Most likely North Carolina’s new Knobby video. Loren Coleman was one of the first to report the video here at Cryptomundo.

More recently MSNBC and NBC affiliates have covered the story with differing opinions. You can read more about the Google Search trends for “bigfoot” or read about NBC Journalist infighting at BigfootLunchClub.com.

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That being, that the more experienced viewers have a strong sense of what (real) Bigfoot is supposed to look and behave like to the extent that if something does not exhibit those patterns, it is reflexively dismissed.

I don’t want to speak for everybody here but I suspect that some of (real) Bigfoot’s trademarks are agreed to be the coned head, the arched forward back and the big stride among others.

This is bad news for hoaxers because if they want to go far, they have to be extra crafty.